FALSE QUOTES OF JACQUES ATTALI'S INTERVIEW POLLUTE INTERNET DISABLING US FROM VALID REASONING. YES, WORLD IS FULL OF IMBECILES FROM BOTH SIDES.
THIS IS WHAT HE REALLY SAID.
Michel Salomon's interview with French socialist Jacques Attali, published in the book "L'avenir de la vie" (The Future Of Life) [1981]
https://www.amazon.com/Lavenir-vie-Visages-lavenir-French/dp/222150237X
Original scans of interview in PNG, merged PDF and txt translation from French to English can all be found in this Google Drive folder:
English translation of the interview:
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“Ein Wunderkind” would say the Germans, a child prodigy. At less than forty years old, Jacques Attali is all at the same time an economist of international reputation, a teacher, a political adviser very listened to the Socialist Party and a versatile writer, author not only of theoretical works on his discipline, but of essays. Noticed in fields as varied as politics, music, and, recently, medicine. The book he published in the fall of 1979, "L'Ordre Cannibale ou Pouvoir et Déclin de la Médecine", revived the debate in France, not only on the validity of the therapeutic act but on all existential problems, from birth to death, which underpin the organization of the healthcare system in the West.
What makes Attali run?
For those who are his friends, so much energy in so many directions baffles them. For those who are his enemies - and he has many, less because of his amiable, endearing personality, than because of his political options - this gifted man is suspect. Rooted in a land of reason, measure, “golden mean” -the middle of what exactly?-, the French establishment has always been wary of intellectuals who trample on its "French" gardens...
Jacques Attali undoubtedly disturbs, with his excesses, his excesses, his constant and feverish questioning. But in these times of crisis, don't we need to be more "worried" than reassured?...
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Michel Salomon:
Why is an economist so passionately interested in medicine, health...
Jacques Attali:
I have found by studying the general economic problems of Western society that health costs are a major factor in the economic crisis. The production of consumers and their maintenance is expensive, even more expensive than the production of the commodities themselves. People are produced by the